Eminent Victorians (1967)

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Eminent Victorians (1967)
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Biography & True Stories

Eminent Victorians (1967)

Lytton Strachey
Edition year 1967
Binding Buckram
Weight 1.25 Kg
Pages 288
Dimensions 22.8 × 15 cm

Edition details

Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey. 7 leaves of portraits of the Victorians. Bound in red buckram cover blocked with a design in black. Pale blue endleaves printed in black, reproducing the first page of Strachey's manuscript. Brown slipcase. 22.8x15cm. 288pp.

About the book

Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians transformed the art of biography through its witty and irreverent portraits of four celebrated figures of nineteenth-century Britain: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr Thomas Arnold and General Charles Gordon. Rather than treating his subjects with unquestioning admiration, Strachey examines their ambitions, contradictions and weaknesses with sharp psychological insight. His concise, ironic style challenged the reverential approach traditionally taken toward Victorian heroes and helped establish a new form of modern biography.

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